Show:
Explorers
Events
More Events
Columbian Exchange
Random Knowledge
100

Name the explorer that sailed into the Bahama Islands in 1492 on three ships while thinking he landed on the shores of the country of India.

What is Christopher Columbus

100
What wast the period of time called that officially began in the early 15th century and lasted until the 17th century. This period is thought of as a time when Europeans began exploring the world by sea in search of trading partners, new goods, and new trade routes. In addition, some explorers set sail to simply learn more about the world.
What is The Age of Exploration or known as The Age of Discovery.
100
Explored current day Canada

Jacques Cartier 

100

Old World

What is Europe, Asia and Africa?

100

Large farms

What are plantations?

200
A Portuguese navigator, he commanded an expedition that was the first to travel across the world (1480-1521)
What is Ferdinand Magellan
200

The first Europeans to reach the east coast of North America were the _____ 

Who are Vikings? 

200
What were the three goals that explorers tried to accomplish when setting out to explore? This was also known as the "3 G's"
What is .... 1. Glory (Fame and developing strong reputation) 2 Gold (trade routes to Asia and to become wealthy) 3. God (to spread Christianity)
200

New World

What is North & South America?

200

Discovered the Hudson River

Who is Henry Hudson?

300

a Portuguese explorer, soldier and prince. Although he rarely participated in explorations, he sent many expeditions from Portugal to the west coast of Africa, and was responsible for Portugal’s influence in the Great Age of Exploration. His school of navigation resulted in a breakthrough for Portuguese navigation.

What is Prince Henry (Henry the Navigator)

300
The period of time known for discovery and exploration of new continents, the decline of the feudalism, the invention of the mariner's compass, and the invention or application of such potentially powerful innovations as paper and the printing press.
What is the Renaissance
300
Why did Columbus call the people he had encountered Indians?
What is he thought he reached the East Indies (India area)
300

List  products that were exported to the “Old World”.

potato

tomato

avocado

pumpkin 

turkey

300

Country claimed Mississippi River Valley

Who is France?

400
Who was the first person to sail directly from Europe to India? His success in doing so proved to be one of the more instrumental moments in the history of navigation. He subsequently made two other voyages to India, and was appointed as Portuguese viceroy in India in 1524.
What is Vasco da Gama
400
a Spanish conquistador who overthrew the Aztec empire and won Mexico for the crown of Spain.
What is Hernando Cortes
400

Explorer sailed under the flags of two different countries

Henry Hudson

400
List the remaining items that were imported into the "new world."
What is...(remaining items not mentioned in above answer)
400

What role did the printing press play in the Protestant Reformation?

Helped spread the ideas of the Reformation?

500
The first European to sail around the tip of Africa, Dias opened the doors for seafaring trade with India.
What is Bartolomeu Dias
500
Explain two negative effects of the Columbian Exchange.
What is... 1. Use of African slaves 2. Spread of Diseases to the New World.
500
Spanish explorer and conquistador, he helped Vasco Núñez de Balboa discover the Pacific Ocean, and after conquering Peru and the Incas, founded its capital city, Lima.
What is Francisco Pizarro
500
Explain two positive effects of the Columbian Exchange on the entire world.
What is.....New ideas and products being exchanged between various parts of the world, etc.
500

a water route through North America that would allow ships to sail from the Atlantic to the Pacific

What is Northwest Passage?